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in Cnemodon, hind tibiæ somewtiat fringed above; tlie tarsi have longer 

 hairs above than in Cnemodon. All the hairs are dark. Wings distinctly 

 brownish tinged, stigma only slightly darker; the upper marginal cross- 

 vein bent as in C^iemodon, but not much angularly. Halteres brownish 

 black. Squamulæ smoky or brownish. 



Female. The female does not seem to be described, unless the 

 ruficornis by Strobl (Mittheil. Ver. Steierm. XXIX, 1892, 196) should 

 belong here as suggested with a querry by Verrall. 



Length nearly 6 mm. 



The above description is made from a male in Stæger's coUection, 

 Zetterstedt remarks (1. c. II) that he had got the male he describes 

 from Stæger under the name P. carhonaria M.; Stæger has then no 

 doubt later corrected the name in his collection. 



P. morionellum seems to be rare in Denmark ; in Stæger's collection 

 there is only one specimen, a male, from Dyrehaven (two more speci- 

 mens under the same name do not belong here), but a second male 

 was sent to Zetterstedt (1. c. 837). 



Geographical distribution : — Northern and middle Europe down 

 into Bohemia and perhaps Styria; it was not known to Zetterstedt 

 from Sweden, but Wahlgren (Entom. Tidskr. XIII, 1909, 17) records 

 it from the southern Sweden. — When I give this distribution, as 

 well as the above synonymi, it is because I am of opinion that the 

 authors have probably had this species and have not observed that 

 no C7iemodon-'&^\iv& are present; otherwise the species was only known 

 to Zetterstedt, and only occurring in Denmark, while morionellns by 

 Kowarz and later authors would be a new Cnemodon-s^QCies. 



2. P. dubium n. sp. 

 Male. Vertex black, with yellow and black or almost quite black 

 hairs. Frons bluish black with black hairs. Epistoma likewise bluish 

 black, a little greyish pruinose; it has whitish hairs, but at the sides 

 and downwards there are black hairs, or it is all black-haired with 

 only some pale hairs in the middle. Occiput grey pruinose, the hairs 

 black on the upper half, white below. Antennæ black, not short; 

 third joint not one and a half times as long as broad; arista shorter 

 than the antennæ. Eyes densely haired with brownish or black hairs, 

 below the hairs paler to white. Thorax black, punctate, slightly 

 shining; it is densely clothed with somewhat long, yellowish to dark 

 brownish hairs, longest on scutellum and at its margin and here more 

 or less black; also just at the side margin the hairs more or less 

 black, and the pleura black-haired, but quite downwards there are 

 again more or fewer pale hairs. Abdomen black, duU, hut the sides. 



